Jervoise Bay preparations involve dredging channels,
reclaiming land and building breakwaters akin to those at neighbouring Henderson.
Not exact matches
To describe strip mines as environmentally devastating reflects a way of thinking that logically requires one to regard the
building of dykes
and reclaiming of
land in Holland as one of the greatest environmental crimes of all time.
The new area is being
built on
reclaimed land and will house some of the most expensive real estate in the world, which would add to the feel of glamour
and glitz that surrounds the jewel on the F1 calendar.
When you produce 97 % of your own food, compost all manure (human
and animal), make your own clothing, shoes, diapers, wraps, menstrual pads, washable toilet paper, soaps, lanolin,
and herbal tinctures,
and grow your animals feed, make your house out of a recycled tobacco barn with
reclaimed building materials, have no electricity (even solar panels / wind generators leave a huge footprint from manufacture), water coming from your spring / creek, home school your children without fancy curriculum, make your living from your
land and being a home birth midwife, etc... then you will see what real life could be.
The city,
built on
reclaimed land, was founded in 1967
and was named after Cornelis Lely, who engineered the Afsluitdijk, making the
reclaiming possible.
Benoa Harbour is on the northern side of the bay — a square of docks
and port
buildings on
reclaimed land.
Fortunately, the government mandates the creation of green space for every big development,
and that's evident with Gardens by the Bay, the 101 - hectare botanical gardens
built on waterfront
reclaimed land, which opened earlier this year.
The severe impacts of mountaintop removal show the urgent need to end this practice as well as to begin
building towards
reclaiming the
land and water for a healthier future.
Built on
reclaimed waterfront
land, the 101 - hectacre gardens comprise three separate landscapes
and includes two massive (but energy - efficient) biomes designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects that contain tens of thousands of Mediterranean
and tropical plants.
Let kinder Morgan
build the pipeline, sell the oil,
and we will
reclaim the
land, when the oil is gone.
«We are in a unique situation since we have
built on
reclaimed land and I expect there will be interest from Canadians who will see this as an opportunity to invest in a very special property,» says Oliver Gobat, sales director at The
Landings.
The Queens Chain regulation that states all
land within 20 m on the shoreline is owned by the government
and can only be leased, but since The
Landings is
built on
reclaimed land the rule does not apply.